Previous version(s) that may have more info are here
As of August 1 Plan: TheUnited Statesfederal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub SaharanAfrica.
Chapter 1: The Apartheid Past The public health failures inAfricaare a result of ongoingUScolonialism. TheUSmust address the question of reparations to recognize and reconcile centuries of apartheid. AfricaAction "Reparations" 2007 (http://www.africaaction.org/resources/issues/reparations.php).
Moreover,responding to the current health crisis through thediscourse of reparations is necessaryto address lingering damage.
Salih Booker, executive director of Africa Action. June 19, 2003 (Who owes whom? AIDS and reparations Christian Science Monitor, http://www.africaaction.org/desk/csm0306.htm).
And,rebuilding public health is the necessary form of these reparations.
Steve Miller, The Washington Times, September 11, 2001.
And, this continued colonialism contributes to immeasurable dehumanization and death – leading to a loss of value to life.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu 5 September 2001
Ecumenical caucus statement at World Conference Against Racism http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?id=2442.
And, value to life out weighs nuclear war and extinction
Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor. Philosophy. University of Tulane. 1993 (Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Pg. 119-120. 1993.)
1AC - Reparations
Chapter 2:Decision Calculus
Representation shapes the way policies towardsAfricaare created – representations ofAfricaas the "Other" justifiescultural domination – we must question our framing and representations in the context ofAfrica.
Lucy Jarosz, University of Washington Department of Geography, 1992, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, Vol. 74, No. 2., p. 105-115, JSTOR.
And,Prioritizing the politics of the "here" above the politics of the "elsewhere" representsAfricaas a risk - thisperpetuates the cause of violence rather than contributing to their solution.
Riat Abrahamsen, Department of Internatino Politics – University of Wales, 2005, Alternatives 30, Blair's Africa: "The Polics of Securitization of Fear".
The decision to advocate the plan should not be conditioned on poor choices other people will make afterwards — we can act only on our own moral agency
Alan Gewirth ‘82, Edward Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, Human Rights, p. 230]
And, Err of the side of probable impacts - their so called experts don’t understand the future of political affairs and cannot accurately predict events. They are as accurate as monkey’s throwing dart. Menand 2005 (Louis ,phd Colombia and Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University., The New Yorker, 12-05-2005, http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/051205crbo_books1 ) [O’Brien]
Finally, suppressing phrase like “sub-Saharan” because it is offensive preserves its injurious meaning - only by using the language can space be opened to reconstruct a more humane meaning
Anna Kurtzand Christopher Oscarson, Members of National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College, Composition and Communication, 2003 ("BookTalk: Revising the Discourse of Hate," ProQuest)
Previous version(s) that may have more info are here
As of August 1
Plan:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub Saharan Africa.
Chapter 1: The Apartheid Past
The public health failures in Africa are a result of ongoing US colonialism. The US must address the question of reparations to recognize and reconcile centuries of apartheid.
Africa Action "Reparations" 2007 (http://www.africaaction.org/resources/issues/reparations.php).
Moreover,responding to the current health crisis through the discourse of reparations is necessary to address lingering damage.
Salih Booker, executive director of Africa Action. June 19, 2003 (Who owes whom? AIDS and reparations Christian Science Monitor, http://www.africaaction.org/desk/csm0306.htm).
And, rebuilding public health is the necessary form of these reparations.
Steve Miller, The Washington Times, September 11, 2001.
And, this continued colonialism contributes to immeasurable dehumanization and death – leading to a loss of value to life.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu 5 September 2001
Ecumenical caucus statement at World Conference Against Racism http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?id=2442.
And, value to life out weighs nuclear war and extinction
Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor. Philosophy. University of Tulane. 1993 (Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Pg. 119-120. 1993.)
1AC - Reparations
Chapter 2: Decision Calculus
Representation shapes the way policies towards Africa are created – representations of Africa as the "Other" justifies cultural domination – we must question our framing and representations in the context of Africa.
Lucy Jarosz, University of Washington Department of Geography, 1992, Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, Vol. 74, No. 2., p. 105-115, JSTOR.
And, Prioritizing the politics of the "here" above the politics of the "elsewhere" represents Africa as a risk - this perpetuates the cause of violence rather than contributing to their solution.
Riat Abrahamsen, Department of Internatino Politics – University of Wales, 2005, Alternatives 30, Blair's Africa: "The Polics of Securitization of Fear".
The decision to advocate the plan should not be conditioned on poor choices other people will make afterwards — we can act only on our own moral agency
Alan Gewirth ‘82, Edward Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, Human Rights, p. 230]
And, Err of the side of probable impacts - their so called experts don’t understand the future of political affairs and cannot accurately predict events. They are as accurate as monkey’s throwing dart.
Menand 2005 (Louis ,phd Colombia and Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University., The New Yorker, 12-05-2005, http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/051205crbo_books1 ) [O’Brien]
Finally, suppressing phrase like “sub-Saharan” because it is offensive preserves its injurious meaning - only by using the language can space be opened to reconstruct a more humane meaning
Anna Kurtz and Christopher Oscarson, Members of National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College, Composition and Communication, 2003 ("BookTalk: Revising the Discourse of Hate," ProQuest)